A Storm in the Desert: Dragonlinked Chronicles Voume 3 (80 page)

Adolfo Garza Jr lives in central Texas, so only rarely sees the phenomenon called rain. Graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (and with a minor in English), he is apparently one of the rare few who actually get a job that has anything remotely to do with their major. He worked as a computer programmer (also filling in, sometimes for years at a time, as a customer service representative, a merchant service representative, and as the graphics designer) and as a systems analyst before moving to IT Manager. After nearly two decades at the same company, Mr. Garza left to pursue his writing career. It hasn’t always been easy, as most worthwhile things are not, but he is slowly gaining knowledge about this art of writing thing and will be crafting worlds for the foreseeable future.

You can read about his writing exploits at
Adventures In Lethera
where he posts news about life, writing updates, book release dates, fan extras (maps, sketches, etc), as well as things he’s learned about the whole writing craft thing.

Note: The IPA symbols listed below may not render properly on all eReaders, particularly older models. Other than e, the symbols are part of the IPA Extensions and Combining Diacritical Marks font subsets.
A PDF version of this guide is available in the Library section on the
author’s blog
.

International Phonetic Alphabet Symbols

ɪː - Long E, as in eel, read

e - Short E, as in men, ten

ɑɪ - Long I, as in kite, my

ɪ - Short I, as in bit, writ

eɪ - Long A, as in ate, day

æ - Short A, as in cat, sat

ʌ - Short U, as in bus, rut

eə - W
ear
,
air
[if no ‘r’ follows, leave off the ‘r’ sound]

ə -
A
meric
a
, c
o
llide

ɔː - S
or
t,
or
e
[if no ‘r’ follows, leave off the ‘r’ sound]

ɒ - Short O, as in ox, not

uː -
oo
ze, t
oo

ɜː - b
ir
d, w
or
d

əʊ - Long O, as in go

g - as in glorious

ʔ - Glottal stop, a sudden pause while speaking. In the word ‘that,’ for example, you may notice that you only actually breathe out air during the first three letters ‘tha.’ As you shut off airflow, you lift your tongue to the roof of your mouth just behind your front teeth to make the final ‘t’ sound happen. The sudden stop, the blocking of your glottis, is called a glottal stop.

A list of some names, by location, is shown below. Where ‘ts’ is shown, it sounds like the ‘ts’ in cats. If an apostrophe is shown, its syllable is stressed. If none is shown, no syllable is stressed more than another. Pronunciations listed are how the author pronounces the names himself, and may not be the most frequently used pronunciations for names entirely or partially based on Earth names.

Caer Baronel

Caer - kɑɪr

Baronel - bæ’ rʌ nel

Aeron - eər ʌn

Anaya - ə nɑɪ’ ə

Balam - bə’ ləm

Citlali - sɪːt lə’ lɪː

Coatl - kɔ:’ ət

Doronal - dɔ:r’ ʌ nəl

Huemac - weɪ’ mək

Liara - lɪː ə’ rə

Nelli - ne lɪː’

Tenoch - te’ nɔːch

Xoc - shɔːk

Zolin - zɔ:’ lɪn

Bataan-Mok

Bataan - bə’ tən [Extend the ‘a’ in the second syllable]

Mok - mɒk

Anais - ə nə ɪːs’

Chu’a - chuː’ ə

Cirtis - sɪr’ tɪs

Daelon - deə’ lʌn

Gomda - gɔːm’ də

Isandath - ɪ’ sən dæth

Polandra - pɔ: lən’ drə

Renata - re nə’ tə

Takatin -
tə’
kə tɪn

Yiska - yɪ’ skə

Pashi

Pashi - pə’ shɪː

Catori - kə tɔːr’ ɪː

Huilacho - wɪː lə’ chɔː

tłizi - tlʔe’ ze’ [tlʔe, is kind of one and a half syllables]

House Yaot

Yaot - yə wɔ:t’

Chel - chɪːl

Ixtab - ɪːsh’ t
ɒ
b

Malina - m
ə
lɪː’ n
ə

Naum - neɪ’
əʊm

Nenet - ne’ net

House Peku

Peku - pe’ kw
ə

Ikan - ɑɪ cən’

Itzel - ɪː’ tsʌl

Nayra - nɑɪ’ r
ə

Xochi - sɔ:’ chɪː

National Transportation

Pivin - pɪ’ vɪn

Tiberius - tɑɪ bɪːr’ ɪːʌs

Caer Ilan

Ilan - ɪlən

Eldin - el’ dɪn

Bertram - bɜːr’ trʌm

Delcimaar

Delcimaar - del’ sɪ mə
r [Extend the ‘a’ in the third syllable]

Erindia -
ɜː
r ɪn’ dɪː
ə

Gella - gel
ə

Kaiden - keɪ’ dɪn

Komako - kəʊ’ mə kəʊ

Smarkel - smər’ kʌl

Zaine - zeɪn

A STORM IN THE DESERT © 2015 Adolfo Garza Jr.

Dragonlinked Chronicles © 2015 Adolfo Garza Jr.

Tales of Lethera © 2015 Adolfo Garza Jr.

Cover design © 2015 Adolfo Garza Jr.

Photographs adapted for use in the cover design
under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0) license
:

‘Lightning in Arches National Park Moab Utah 2013’
by Anthony Quintano / (modified)

(
http://www.flickr.com/photos/quintanomedia/9802406334/
)

The CC BY 2.0 license is viewable at:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

This is a work of fiction. Any similarities to real people, places, or events, is entirely coincidental.

Revised March 2015.